 AM We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result, to this time, is much in our favor. Our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. I think the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over five thousand prisoners...  A Critical History of the Late American War - Seite 370von Asa Mahan - 1877 - 461 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charles Abner Phelps - 1872 - 404 Seiten
...loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over five thousand prisoners by battle, whilst lie has taken from us but few except stragglers. I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer" Grant determined to attack the enemy's right centre ; and during the night,... | |
 | James Moore (M.D.) - 1875 - 582 Seiten
...enemy. I think the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over five thousand prisoners in battle, whilst he has taken from us but few, except...stragglers. I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." The most terrible conflict was yet to come. On Wednesday night, Hancock's... | |
 | Joseph Keith Newell - 1875 - 630 Seiten
...the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over five thousand prisoners by battle, while he has taken from us but few, except stragglers. I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer." Near dark the Tenth left the rifle-pits, and bivouacked near by for the night.... | |
 | Asa Mahan - 1877 - 482 Seiten
...dislodge the enemy, but with no decisive success anywhere. Our loss in the battle of this day, May 9th, was severe, — that of the enemy in his rifle-pits,...GRANT, Lieutenant- General Commanding the Armies of th* United States." Near the close of the battle of the second day in the Wilderness, the enemy captured,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1877 - 674 Seiten
...enemy. I think the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over &000 prisoners by battle, while he has taken from us but few, except stragglers. I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." 308 BATTLE OF SPOTTSYLVANIA CO CRT-HOUSE. Hill's corps, and moving silently... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1880 - 646 Seiten
...think the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over 6000 prisoners by battle, whilst ho has taken from us but few, except stragglers. I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.' Acting principally on the defensive, Lee now manoeuvred so adroitly, as to... | |
 | John Wien Forney - 1880 - 514 Seiten
...think the loss of the enemy must bo greater. We have taken over 5,000 prisoners in battle, while be has taken from us but few except stragglers. I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.'' On Wednesday (llth) the position of the two armies remained nearly the same.... | |
 | John Wien Forney - 1880 - 516 Seiten
...I think the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over 5,000 prisoners in battle, while he has taken from us but few except stragglers. I propose to fight it out on Uiis line if it takes all summer." On Wednesday (llth) the position of the two armies remained nearly... | |
 | Charles H. Evans - 1884 - 234 Seiten
...enemy. I think the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over 5000 prisoners by battle, while he has taken from us but few, except stragglers. I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.' But he was mistaken in his computation of the comparative losses. The Federal... | |
 | L. T. Remlap - 1885 - 800 Seiten
...the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over five thousand prisoners by battle, while he has taken from us but few, except stragglers. I...OUT ON THIS LINE IF IT TAKES ALL SUMMER. US GRANT, Lientenaut-deneral, Commanding' the Armies of the Untied States. Finding the enemy's left too strong... | |
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